Abstract: A picture recording apparatus such as may be used with a rolled sheet material in which marks on finished pictures due to pressure exerted on the recording material by conveying rollers when the apparatus is in the stopped state are eliminated. When picture recording operations are to be carried out, multiple pairs of conveying rollers are engaged with one another to convey the recording material through various processing stations. When picture recording operations are halted, such as when the apparatus is turned off, at least one of the conveying rollers which would cause marking of finished pictures are disengaged from one another.

Abstract: A dental washer includes a heating vessel for heating a washing liquid by an electrical heater to generate superheated steam, so electromagnetic pump on a water supply pipe communicating with the heating vessel and a water source, an electromagnetic valve in a steam pipe having at its one end a nozzle for outputting steam and communicating with the nozzle and a superheated steam-filling region of the heating vessel and a level detector for detecting the level of the washing liquid in the heating vessel to turn the electrical heater on when the level reaches the preset upper limit and turn it off when the level reaches the preset lower limit.

Abstract: A bulk material container comprising a flexible liner with a bottom outlet fitting. The bottom outlet fitting of the flexible liner is inserted by means of an installing tool into a bottom opening of the shell of the container. The bottom outlet fitting has a substantially square internal pocket shape that is adapted for receiving fingers of the insertion tool for installation in the shell.

Abstract: The combination of known components to produce a new toy shooting apparatus. A toy that makes it possible for a player to act like a spider person by shooting webs from the palm of his or her hand. The webbing material consists of string foam delivered from a hidden pressurized container through a valve incorporated into a glove worn by the player. A trigger mechanism enables the player to activate the valve at will by the exercise of pressure with the fingers of the hand wearing the glove.

Abstract: A compressed gas container for spraying liquid from an essentially pressureless, compressable product receptacle which is enclosed by an elastically prestressed hollow cylinder made of elastomeric material. The hollow cylinder is able to expand in one direction only and is acted upon by a pressurized gas provided in a clearance space between the product receptacle and the hollow cylinder. The clearance space is hermetically sealed to the outside and is filled, while the product receptacle is empty, with the pressurized gas having a pressure of approximately P.sub.min. The liquid to be sprayed is fed into the product receptacle in such an amount that the gas contained in the free space reaches a pressure of approximately P.sub.max. The pressure of the gas in the free space varies, as a function of the amount of product in the product receptacle, between the minimum pressure P.sub.min and the maximum pressure P.sub.max.

Abstract: A material dispensing monitor including an encoder and sensor adjustably mounted to a securement and a pump as a function of specific gravity to produce a series of pulses per cycle of the pump as a function of specific gravity and capacity of the pump so that the pulses provide a direct measure of weight. An all pneumatic system monitors and displays the weight of material dispensed and can provide annunciation when a predetermined weight of material has been dispensed.

Abstract: A volume measurement and dosage device possesses a cylinder- piston- and valve-system (4). With this system, liquid can be drawn up and/or delivered in defined quantities. At least two channels (33, 36, 38) are provided in the valve-system, which can be connected with at least one opening (32) in the cylinder bottom (11). The piston (12) is displaceable within the cylinder (10) by means of an actuation device (3). The cylinder (10) is at the same time surrounded by a holding device (5, 40), in which it is mounted in bearings to rotate with the cylinder bottom (11) around an axis common to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder (Y) or parallel to it. The cylinder bottom (11), with at least two channel openings (29, 30, 31), rests with a sealed seating upon a valve element (28). Through rotation of the cylinder bottom (11), its opening (32) can alternately be aligned with the channel openings (29, 30, 31) of the valve element (28).

Abstract: Squeeze bottle pumpless nozzle dispenser has a first lid, a second lid, a dispensing nozzle, a shut off valve and a dip tube. The first lid, located on the top, has a dispensing orifice upper portion and a venting orifice upper portion. Each of these is located in either a track or a track follower formed in the bottom of the first lid and in alignment therewith. It has means for rotatable attachment to the second lid. The second lid has means for attaching to the squeeze bottle and includes the lower portions of a dispensing orifice and a venting orifice. Each of these is located in either a track or track follower and is located on the top of the second lid in alignment with the counterparts located on the bottom of the first lid. A shut off valve is located within the lower or upper portion of the venting orifice, responsive to pressure. When the bottle is squeezed, the shut off valve will close the vent so that fluid material will only exit through the dispensing orifice and thus through the nozzle.

Abstract: A dispenser for pasty compositions having a housing which contains a piston which can be displaced only in the emptying direction, the housing having an external handle to actuate a pump wall, which wall can be pushed in the direction of the piston in order to dispense the contents from an outlet opening in a top cover of the housing, the cover being connected to the pump wall by a small tube, and the pump wall having a tube channel formed thereon. A plug is formed on the tube channel at its end, the plug extending into a cover-side outlet opening and closing the outlet opening form below.

Abstract: A liquid dispenser includes a plunger and an elongate barrel having a cylindrical bore which receives the plunger. The plunger includes an axial passage which delivers a volume of liquid as the plunger is depressed downwardly into the barrel. The volume of liquid delivered depends on the length of the downstroke of the plunger, and a mechanism is provided which allows the plunger to be rotated to limit the length of the downstroke to a predetermined percentage of total length. In this way, premeasured volumes of liquid may be delivered by the dispenser.

Abstract: An apparatus for storing, heating and dispensing portioned foods items has a cooled storage unit for storing portioned food items, a cooking unit for heating the portioned food items, a transport lift unit for transferring the food items to be heated from the storage unit to the cooking unit and an output unit for transferring heated food items from the cooking unit to a dispensing station for dispensing. The storage unit includes a plurality of conveyor belts upon which the portioned food items are stored and which transport the food items to the transport lift unit. Each of the lift transport unit, the cooking unit and the output unit includes a conveyor for transferring the food items.

Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing of liquids to the oral cavity of an individual or animal comprises a tubular body having two ends, with one of the ends being a frusto-conical end provided with an orifice at the tip thereof to serve as an injector for overcoming resistance to swallowing, and the other of the ends being an angularly chamfered open end which is used as a gravity dispenser. The tubular body is axially inserted in a cap suitable for capping a flask and containing a complementary tubular wall to axially receive the tubular body of the dispenser, whereby, when the frusto-conical end of the tubular body is inserted within the cap, the chamfered open end of the tubular body becomes free to dispense a liquid contained therein by gravity, whereas when the chamfered open end of the tubular body is inserted within the cap, the frusto-conical end becomes free and serves as an injector to forcibly dispense the liquid by squeezing the tubular body.

Abstract: A non-resealable dispenser cap construction having an elongate tapered, stepped hollow spout member with an exterior shoulder intermediate its ends, and a discharge orifice. A closure cap member having a transverse closure wall is mounted on the spout member with the transverse wall engaging and closing over the discharge orifice. With the closure cap member so mounted, the transverse closure wall is distorted and biased by its engagement with the wall of the discharge orifice. One of the members is formed with two oppositely-disposed frangible tabs which overlie and are permanently attached to the other member, and each tab has a zone of weakness which can be readily ruptured upon the application of opposing rotative forces to the members. With the cap member removed the orifice is exposed, permitting discharge of the container contents through the spout member. Re-sealing of the cap member on the spout member is prevented, due to a lack of interengageable parts on the two members.

Abstract: The invention relates to an actuating device for a tap on a beverage decanting installation. The tap 1 bears a plug-in receptacle 5 with a non-return valve 8-10 of a connection 6, 7 for a pressurized gas pipe. Fitted on to the plug-in receptacle 5 is a casing 13 formed with connecting channels and connecting chambers 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 28, 29 for the supply of a pressurized gas to an actuating piston 32 disposed in a chamber 30 for an actuating member 3 of the tap 1. When the casing 13 is fitted on, the non-return valve 8-10 accommodated in the plug-in receptacle 5 is retained in the open position by a tappet 16 of a connecting channel 18, so that the actuating piston 32 can experience pressure via another valve 25, 26, 27 actuable by a rocking lever 40. The other valve 25, 26, 27, constructed as a non-return valve, is actuated via a tappet 34 which takes the form of a valve and via which the chamber 30 of the actuating piston 32 can be relieved of pressure.

Abstract: A dispensing cap construction for containers, having a cap body for attachment to a container neck, and having a discharge spout portion through which the container contents can be discharged, and a closure cap turnably carried by the cap body. The closure cap has a non-round or slit-shaped orifice, and a stopper blade in the closure cap is received in the orifice so as to close it off. The stopper blade is rotatably mounted on the spout portion of the cap body to enable it to rotate simultaneously with, or in unison with turning movements of the closure cap. The cross section of the stopper blade is such that it can fit sealingly in the orifice. The cross section of the blade is, in the disclosed embodiment, substantially of rectangular or oblong configuration.

Abstract: A dispenser of paste products, in particular toothpaste, is composed of a cylindrical container provided with a headpiece carrying a paste product output and with a bottom wall fitting in an airtight manner therein for sliding movement one way toward the headpiece. The bottom wall consists of a plunger body having an axial cavity which is open downwardly and communicates, through radial passages, with the interior of the container, and of a dish-shaped body provided with a lug which fits snugly into the axial cavity. The outer surface of the lug on the dish-shaped body is provided with ribs which form, in co-operation with the inner wall of the axial cavity in the plunger body, channels extending along paths including at least one sharp change in direction. At the end of the container filling operation, the bottom wall is inserted and pushed against the toothpaste while trapped air is vented out through the channels.

Abstract: A dispenser for pasty compositions has a delivery tube (3) with lateral passage openings (10) for a second component of a pasty composition developed in the delivery tube (3), and an elastically reformable pump element. The delivery tube (3) is closed by a valve body (19). A piston (33) is moveable through a housing of the dispenser in emptying direction upon reforming of the pump element. The lateral passage openings (10) for the passage of the second component can be closed by the same valve body (19), and the valve body is guided by means of a shaft in the delivery tube (3). In order to obtain in a manner simple to manufacture, a dispenser for pasty composition for possible delivery of pasty composition formed of several components, particularly an esthetically pleasing stripe formation, a stepwise widening of the delivery tube cross section which is developed in the direction of flow at the height of the upper valve-disk closure. Guide ribs for mating with the valve-disk.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved apparatus and method for the sequential handling of a series of flexible products which enables operation of the orbital packing fingers at lower speeds to reduce inertial loading and yet maintain a high output rate. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the packing fingers are operated at a rate of 1/X times the rate that flexible products are provided. Where X is the number of delivery points per lane of flexible products provided. The orbital packing fingers themselves are constructed to extend across substantially the entire width of the bags as they are stripped from a transfer drum and to decelerate the bags as they are stacked against a backstop.

Abstract: A group of flanged lids or cups of substantially identical construction and arranged in nested relation in a container are dispensed from an open end of the container by an elongated yieldable tension element disposed astride the open end of the container and arranged to override the flange of the article adjacent the open end of the container thereby to release and to aid in ejecting the article from the container.

Abstract: A control system for the hydraulic operating circuit associated with a vehicle lifting device in which the circuit is provided with pressure fluid control valves and flow sensors which are operative on the vehicle lowering cycle to establish substantial evenness of the lowering mechanism and protection against malfunction of an operating component to arrest the travel of the vehicle lifting device in its lowering cycle.